I apparently love to type \texit instead of \textit.

I guess I like to "TeX it".  Not surprising, huh?

gpl-lgpl.tex

@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ during that era about new text of that license.  However, rampant violations
 of the GPL required more immediate attention of FSF's licensing staff, and as
 such, much of the early 2000's was spent doing GPL enforcement
 work\footnote{More on GPL enforcement is discussed in \tutorialpartsplit{a
-    companion tutorial, \texit{A Practical Guide to GPL
+    companion tutorial, \textit{A Practical Guide to GPL
       Compliance}}{Part~\ref{gpl-compliance-guide} of this tutorial}.}.  In
 2006, FSF began in earnest drafting work for GPLv3.
 
@@ -2551,7 +2551,7 @@ privately modifying and running the program.
 Also, GPLv3~\S2\P2 gives an explicit permission for a client to provide a
 copy of its modified software to a contractor exclusively for that contractor
 to modify it further, or run it, on behalf of the client.  However, the
-client can \texit{only} exercise this control over its own copyrighted
+client can \textit{only} exercise this control over its own copyrighted
 changes to the GPL-covered program.  The parts of the program it obtained
 from other contributors must be provided to the contractor with the usual GPL
 freedoms.  Thus, GPLv3 permits users to convey covered works to contractors